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There are only a few anti-ageing supplements that actually work
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (654+ words) Graham Lawton is a consultant for New Scientist, where he spent more than two decades as a staff writer, features editor, deputy editor and magazine editor. Nowadays, he mostly writes features about life sciences and health, as well as a…...
Most neurons seem to be jacks-of-all-trades, not specialists
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (379+ words) For decades, scientists have been discovering neurons with seemingly unique jobs. There are place cells that fire in response to a particular location, mirror neurons that may help us interpret behaviours and even neurons that respond to all things Jennifer…...
This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (625+ words) The planet-warming super El Niño now developing will almost certainly be the strongest ever, breaking the record by an unprecedented margin. Out of hundreds of simulations by 14 forecast models, 90 per cent predict the El Niño will reach a sea surface…...
Extremely basic AI prompt cracks decades-old maths problem
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (374+ words) New Scientist A graph showing a counterexample to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture A longstanding mathematical conundrum has been solved by ChatGPT in a few hours, with only a few simple prompts Rybin entered just four prompts into ChatGPT 5.6 Pro: an initial…...
New Scientist recommends Anish Kapoor's show at the Hayward Gallery
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (332+ words) Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery explicitly invokes religious themes, but for me, it also raises the kind of questions about reality and the nature of space-time that scientists immerse themselves in. Take his gigantic, 4.5-tonne Mount Moriah…...
How exploring the gut microbiome could support mental health
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (559+ words) It is the year 2036. A patient struggling with depression and anxiety is referred to her local psychobiotics clinic where the consultant prescribes a course of personalised pills to improve her symptoms. But rather than acting on her own cells, let…...
Open AI's hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1087+ words) Last week, Hugging Face, a company that offers a range of open-source AI models for download, noticed it had been hacked – and it turned out the culprit was OpenAI. It seems this AI uploaded some data to Hugging Face that…...
Last Word: This week’s new questions
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (166+ words) What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail: fewer big cubes or lots of small ones? Mark HarperBrighton, UK What is the smallest creature that needs to sleep and what does this tell us about the nature and need…...
Twisteddoodles on children's flexible ears
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (118+ words) Twisteddoodles on children’s flexible ears New Scientist More from New Scientist Explore the latest news, articles and features Why open-source software can be both good and bad This twisty sci-fi thriller is a fantastic debut from Isabel J. Kim Sunshine…...
We still don't know how black holes get so big | Becky Smethurst
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (77+ words) We still don’t know how black holes get so big | Becky Smethurst New Scientist Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicst at the University of Oxford and her work looks at how these behemoths affect the galaxy around them. New Scientist‘s…...